| Description |
xiv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Making the Middle Ages |
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Making the Middle Ages.
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| Contents |
Introduction: warring elements? Medievalism and Australian identity in nineteenth-century Australian literature -- Life on the Murrumbidgee: anglo-saxonism in the work of Rolf Boldrewood and Josephy Furphy -- 'Backwards and forwards in the strangest way': medievalism, modernity, and 'the Australian girl' novels by Australian women -- Bush idylls and galloping romances: medievalism in the poetry of Adam Lindsay Gordon -- The drivel of our fathers: medievalism in popular Australian poetry -- The round table and other furniture: medievalism on the colonial Australian stage |
| Summary |
This detailed study examines the many ways in which early Australian writers and dramatists drew on the motifs, events and personages of the medieval past, and places particular emphasis on how they used the European past to illuminate their sense of the Australian present. Lousie DArcens investigates the role of medieval studies in the formation of Australian humanities curricula |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
First published in 2011 by Brepols Publishers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-210) and index |
| Subject |
Aesthetics, Medieval, in literature.
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Australian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Australian literature -- 19th century.
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Australian literature.
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Medievalism -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
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Medievalism -- Australia -- History.
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| ISBN |
9781742582542 (paperback) |
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